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I Photographed Ilulissat In Greenland, A Town Of Surreal Landscapes

Sermeq
Kujalleq is also one of the fastest moving (40 m per day) and most active
glaciers in the world

I’ve been
going to Greenland for years, and one of my favourite towns to visit is Ilulissat,
famous for its surreal landscapes, where small colourful houses are surrounded
by countless icebergs.

There is one
area there that I find particularly attractive – Ilulissat Icefjord. In
summertime, I love coming there at around midnight, sit down with a thermos
full of hot coffee and listen to the icebergs calving while they are making
their way into the ocean.

Allow me to
share my amazement with this place through the images below.

Greenland’s
Ilulissat Icefjord

Located on
the west coast of Greenland, 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, it is a tidal
fjord covered with floating brash and massive ice

Icebergs
breaking from the glacier are often so large – up to a kilometer (3,300 ft) in
height – that they are too tall to float down the fjord and lie stuck on the
bottom of its shallower areas

Surreal
colours of Midnight Sun in Ilulissat Icefjord

Larger
icebergs typically do not melt until they reach 40-45 degrees north – further
south than the United Kingdom and level with New York City

The Icefjord
at around 1am in summertime

Whales are
often seen feeding in the area

Moon rising
over “parked” icebergs

Sermeq
Kujalleq is a very productive glacier

Ilulissat
Icefjord is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The
combination of a huge ice-sheet and the dramatic sounds of a fast-moving
glacial ice-stream calving into a fjord full of icebergs make for a dramatic
and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon.

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